Professor Lebene Soga

Professor Lebene Richmond Soga is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Practice at Leeds Business School (LBS), Leeds Beckett University, Academic Director of the LBS Centre for Entrepreneurship & Knowledge Exchange, and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He holds a first degree in Pharmacy (and practised for nearly a decade), a Master of Science (with distinction) in Project Management (Lancaster), a Master of Research (with distinction) in Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change (Lancaster), and a PhD in Management (Henley). 

Lebene is a multi-award-winning academic whose background in both the physical and social sciences steers him towards an interdisciplinary approach to research, often at the intersection of digital technologies, entrepreneurship ecosystems and leadership. He has published in leading journals including Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Business Research, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Small Business Economics, Information Technology and People, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, etc. His research is featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Global, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, among others.

Drawing from his training at Babson College, Massachusetts, Lebene is also inspirational in his teaching and in his engagement with managers, entrepreneurs, and students at all levels. He welcomes research proposals from potential PhD students with research interests in organisation studies, leadership or managerial practice, entrepreneurship ecosystems, and the social aspects of digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence.